Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
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Tag: miscellanea
Acolouthic Hot Links
Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“
The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.
Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.
The worst movie death scene ever.
Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].
Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]
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Fissiparous Hot Links
We Are Alive, Key Frances (2007) “I was born in Seattle in Kings County Hospital. I’m six months younger than Jimi Hendrix. Don’t do the math, I want to be younger than somebody and I am six months younger than Jimi. He was born in the same hospital as I was.” – Key Frances
*squish*
Miss Sukey feeds a swaddled cat.
Terrifying Satellite Jumping Shoes.
Margaret Watts Hughes’ visible voices.
The Golden Age of Radio [via Memo Of The Air].
Solving California’s energy shortage [via Bunkerville].
On the road to Black Rock [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Screencap from live Starlink video.]
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Catalectic Hot Links
Green Eggs And Ham, Not Bob Dylan (1997) In 1997, a 30-something music producer from Houston, Texas, produced a mashup of Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss titled Dylan Hears a Who, a parody album that went viral online. IIRC, the estate of Dr. Seuss issued a cease and desist order based on copyright infringement, and the album / website disappeared (but not before some of us snagged it).
“AHOOOO!”
“WOO-WOO!”
Alena Shymchonak spreads the oil.
Listen to Wikipedia [via Memo Of The Air]
Godzilla: The Official Cookbook [via Mme. Jujujive].
Saturday morning with Peggy and Chuck [via Bunkerville].
[Top image found here.]
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Detumescent Hot Links
B-Gas Rickshaw, The Raybeats (1981)
The Raybeats were an instrumental “no wave” surf rock band from New York (1979-1984). From their album Guitar Beat, this song is a remake of Jan Berry‘s “B” Gas Rickshaw (1964).
Daddy sang bass [via IDHMGO].
To Catch A Thief [via Bunkerville].
Storytime With Mr. A [via Mme. Jujujive].
The 180th Annual Vankleek Hill Agricultural Fair.
Those zany DC superheros! [via The View From Lady Lake].
I ranked at turtle level on the CPS Test [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Illustration by R. Crumb for Charles Bukowski‘s Bop Bop Against The Curtain, Arcade – The Comics Revue #3 (Fall 1973).]
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Vauclusian Hot Links
Good, Good Lovin’, The Blossoms (1966)
The Blossoms were probably the most successful unknown group of the ’60s, and the most well-known lineup was Darlene Love, Fanita James and Jean King. Their biggest hit was not even credited to them: producer Phil Spector was in a rush to get He’s A Rebel to the market, and since his top group was on tour at the time, he named The Crystals instead.
Careful with that dog, Eugene.
Walrus whistle [via Mme. Jujujive].
Bridging the gap [via Bunkerville].
The OSU Marching Band TubaCam.
The 1964 Zambian space program.
Pearl Jam sings names of LinkedIn.
1971 Emoryville scrap yard [via Memo Of The Air].
Some disturbing thoughts about lab-grown sentience.
[Top image: WWII era German built steam locomotive, PKP National Railway Museum, Warsaw, Poland. Image source unknown.]
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Deracinated Hot Links
Steam Powered Aereo Plane, New Grass Revival (1981)
NGR was a tight group of talented pickers who mixed traditional bluegrass styles with jazz and rock. (The song is a John Hartfield cover.)
Skapybara [via Mme. Jujujive].
Chairman of the Beach [via Bunkerville].
Better with sound (and better than a .gif).
Behind the scenes in the panda paddock.
Everyday Life in Real Time [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Slugman Portrait Pillow found here.]
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Ololygmancing Hot Links
Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.
Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]
“A snek!”
Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].
Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.
The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].
Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here.]
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Rhonchisonant Hot Links
Theme to the Green Hornet, Al Hirt (1966) The melody, titled Полёт шмеля (Flight of the Bumblebee), was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. It was jazzed up for The Green Hornet TV series theme by arranger and trumpeter Billy May.
A.I. ballet [h/t Pam M.]
One second per day for a year.
Mama Colugo [via Bunkerville].
Kinetic mask [via Mme. Jujujive].
Reaperman [via Memo Of The Air].
Secret Service Girl [Full song here].
Major Taylor [h/t Queen Hepzibah].
Dark Horse, Dead Ringer and other phrase origins.
Free at no extra cost [via The View From Lady Lake].
Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, 2024.
[Top image: Protest goon outside of the 2024 RNC National Convention.]
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Jasperated Hot Links
Heartbreak Stroll, The Raveonettes (2003) Award winning indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark, The Raveonettes are Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. From the album Chain Gang of Love, the lineup includes Manoj Ramdas on guitar and Jakob Hoyer on drums.
Gigs.
On the roof of the Rijksmuseum.
Pork roll, egg & cheese flavored vodka.
Mysorean Rockets [via Memo Of The Air].
Sad and Worried Animals [via Mme. Jujujive].
Belton’s 1785 semiautomatic rifle [h/t Andy R.]
“If a Little is Good, More is Better and Too Much is just right.”
“Trump looks ridiculous with that bandage.” [via Bunkerville]
[Top image found here, story unknown.]
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Tacky Raccoons 